{"id":748,"date":"2014-09-08T10:56:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T10:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2014\/09\/08\/please_help_preserve_this_historic_astronomical_data\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T10:56:21","slug":"please_help_preserve_this_historic_astronomical_data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Please Help Preserve This Historic Astronomical Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/2014\/platehires.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceref.com\/astronomy\/volunteers-needed-to-preserve-astronomical-history-and-promote-discovery.html\">Volunteers Needed to Preserve Astronomical History and Promote Discovery<\/a><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Digitizing the ~500,000 glass plate images covering the full sky will foster new scientific discoveries for the currently &#8216;hot&#8217; field of studying variability of astronomical objects, or time domain astronomy, as we bring to light these long-hidden archives,&#8221; says Harvard professor Josh Grindlay, the leader of the Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard (DASCH) project. The telescope logbooks record vital information associated with a 100-year-long effort to record images of the sky. By transcribing logbook text to put those historical observations in context, volunteers can help to unlock hidden discoveries.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers Needed to Preserve Astronomical History and Promote Discovery &#8220;Digitizing the ~500,000 glass plate images covering the full sky will foster new scientific discoveries for the currently &#8216;hot&#8217; field of studying variability of astronomical objects, or time domain astronomy, as we bring to light these long-hidden archives,&#8221; says Harvard professor Josh Grindlay, the leader of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please Help Preserve This Historic Astronomical Data&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-technoarchaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}